President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Dr Harry Nespolon says general practitioners are wanting to be included in the government’s “disaster planning” in the future. Dr Nespolon told Sky News host Chris Kenny GPs are often required to help “without any assistance, without any direction and without any resources” in the case of a “pandemic”.
Australia is facing a shortage of facemasks following a period of high demand throughout the nation’s bushfire season and now as protection against the coronavirus. Dr Nespolon said as a “public health issue” he was hoping the “government would be helping out by supplying some of these masks”.
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